----- Original Message ----- > BTW, Andrew, when I am reading the requirements for contributing to GNU > Classpath, I remember that Sun has released Java under the GPL: > https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html > > So, do we still need to implement the orientation- & baseline-anchor > behaviors from scratch instead of simply taking Sun's GPLed code? > > BTW, I haven't looked into Sun's code. So, I can still do the clean room > implementation. > Sun (now Oracle)'s code is available as part of the OpenJDK project. The intention with GNU Classpath is still to provide a clean-room implementation rather than import wholesale chunks of their code. However, if you just want quick access to a 1.7 version of GridBag, a quicker solution may be to just use the OpenJDK package on your distro. For what it's worth: http://fuseyism.com/japi/icedtea7-classpath.html#err_missing_java_awt lists the current state of GNU Classpath compared with the 1.7 API. > Thanks. > > -- > Best regards, > Eus > > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: ed25519/35964222 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = 5132 579D D154 0ED2 3E04 C5A0 CFDA 0F9B 3596 4222 PGP Key: rsa4096/248BDC07 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
